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[donttalktome]

I'm feeling somewhat benevolent today.
After hearing a combination of your suggestions and complaints, I've decided to share.
You know, health of the community and all that.
For those of you still wildly inept with your tablets, just poke the letters that show up in a different color.

[Attached to this message, (a function not normally available for network posts,) is a link which yields several downloadable applications. Thankfully they're not malware or viruses, but hopefully helpful things, including:

- An app that translates text in images into spoken words. Good for the blind (or the illiterate). As it translates into the universal language of Beacon, it could also be used for deciphering foreign letters. Just snap a photo and you're good to go.

- A drawing app. Not as fancy as photoshop, but you can use your hands to make pretty pictures with a variety of colors and line weights.

- Related: a map app. It comes with a version of the current known map, which can be updated by the community. Shitposting will be promptly corrected. You stop that.

- And finally, a game: sudoku to be specific. Are you good at math and puzzles? Let's hope so, otherwise this will be pretty pointless for you. (This one's for you, Noctis.)

All four apps download together, so you're stuck with them even if you only wanted one. But the file isn't exactly labelled in anything other than random(?) numbers, so I suppose you wouldn't know that anyway.

Have fun, Beacon!]

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text -> audio

[donttalktome]

[Boy that... sure is a lot to take in all at once, isn't it? Will switches to audio, though he vastly prefers text, since he suspects Melisandre to be one of those "I can't read" types.]

In the sense that the universe began with an explosion, I suppose you're correct. But in most cases, fire and life aren't exactly capable of coexistence.

[And wow where to start with this other thing.]

Is this some sort of religious nonsense?

audio all the way

[voktys]

Most humans die without warmth.

⟪ she vaguely suspects he probably hides a few tentacles or something. ⟫

It is no nonsense, but then, few believe until they see someone die through it. It's rather sad.

[donttalktome]

Well yes, but there is something of a spectrum between "warmth" and "fire".

[Is it because of the technically an alien thing.]

Die through what? Fire? Or religion? I can't say I've ever seen someone burned alive, but I highly doubt it would make me a god-fearing man.

[voktys]

God has powers to grant. No, you will not believe me, and no, you are not the first to call me unstable for it.

⟪ She's had a hard week, okay. ⟫

It is a simple truth that unbelievers aren't prone to change their minds until they have seen those powers in the worst shape of their actions.

[donttalktome]

Good, someone else already got that out of the way.

[Meaning he definitely agrees with those who have had this conversation with her before.]

What exactly do you mean by "the worst shape of their actions"? You're awfully vague, you know that?

[voktys]

I have been accused of it.

⟪ does this mean she might have to use shadowbinding to shove him into a ditch at one point? maybe. ⟫

'tis not done to insult you, not all of us are meant to understand.

⟪ area witch is low-key calling you dumb while still not knowing that the earth is round. ⟫

[donttalktome]

[How dare you???]

Right, this old trick. You leave out any information that's too specific, so that when something happens that your god would approve of, you don't have to work very hard to make the connection. So-called "prophets" have been doing it for thousands of years.

[How do you like that, Nostradamus?]

It's not that I can't understand, it's that you don't include enough information to understand. That's hardly the same.

[voktys]

Words will never do it justice.

⟪ something about him reminds her strongly of stannis. ⟫

I can offer you a demonstration?

[donttalktome]

Why do I get the distinct feeling that I won't enjoy said demonstration?

[Is Stannis a bitchy know-it-all?]

What would it entail?

[voktys]

⟪ Stannis is three Bs: bitchy, bitter, and balding. Still her favourite, though, even though he corrects other people's grammar. ⟫

I have no sinister intentions. ⟪ Winner of the least soothing phrase contest. ⟫ I'll bind a shadow for you. Can see it, touch it, and know it for the magic it holds.

[donttalktome]

[Well the have that in common, too. All except the balding part.]

And this is supposed to convince me that god exists? I've seen magic before, that doesn't prove anything.